Another great resource. Thank you.
Many people who live in rural areas do these things as a matter of course. When you can your produce, you can a year’s worth of whatever, prepare a year’s worth of meat, etc.
This isn’t survivalist mentality as much as it is common sense. Stuff happens. Be prepared.
I would add: learn to do things. Knit, crochet, fix things, grow things, etc. Learn to sew.
Before the Industrial Revolution, women spent more time on laundry and clothes than anything else - more than food preparation - it took up something like 40% of their week.
<This isn’t survivalist mentality as much as it is common sense. Stuff happens. Be prepared.
Yep. I used to tell this to my girl friends. They already thought I was a little weird for being conservative, and would shake their heads when I mentioned stockpiling stuff for emergencies. What I tried to tell them was that emergencies happen all the time. The power goes off, sometimes for days if its an ice store. People get sick and can’t go to the store. Sometimes you need cash, even in this debt/credit card/ATM society.
As a bunch of single women, most of us didn’t have anyone near we could count on to bring us food, etc. I don’t know why keeping a little stash (we won’t even talk about weapons) of household goods made me the weird one.